‘No shame in breastfeeding! Baby’s gotta eat & I had votes,’ Karina Gould says after a swift reaction to footage of her feeding her baby
Canada’s health minister was being grilled in the House of Commons over the country’s plans to legalise recreational marijuana by mid-October, but it was the scene playing out behind Ginette Petitpas Taylor that catapulted the moment into headlines: one row over, during a raucous Question Period, Liberal MP Karina Gould was breastfeeding her three-month-old son.
In March, Gould became Canada’s first federal minister to have a baby while in office. The minister of Democratic Institutions returned to work in May with her son Oliver in tow, introducing him to her Liberal colleagues, including Justin Trudeau, the country’s prime minister.
Continue reading...posted from The Guardian
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.